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 The Tetnpie. next day, Bastien, having learned of what had been done, returned the keys, saying that his wife had decided not to come to Paris. While the authorities were collecting and arranging these facts, the Roberts were ar rested at Bourbonne-les-Bains. On the 1 2th of August, 1833, the trial of this mysterious case began, before the court of Assizes of the Seine, M. Hardouin pre siding. An immense crowd filled the court and its approaches, and those who had ob tained entrance gazed with awe and interest on the skeleton, which, prepared by Dumoutier, lay upon a table in the centre of the court-room, and formed the first terrible wit ness of the crime about to be revealed. The evidence developed the facts already familiar to the reader, and tended to show that the perpetrator of the deed was Bastien, who, instigated by Robert, had enticed the Widow Houet to the house in the Rue de Vaugirard, and there murdered her. After two hours and a half deliberation, the jury found Bastien guilty of murder. Robert was acquitted upon the question of participation, but was declared guilty of

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iI having provoked the crime by gifts and j the jury found extenuating circumstances in favor of both the accused. Upon this verdict Bastien and Robert were condemned to penal servitude for life, and to public exposure in the pillory. At the moment of passing sentence Bastien j had made a slight movement, but without ' the sjightest change of feature. However, j turned pale and sank on a seat. On examI ination his hand was found covered with blood, and convulsively clutching a pair of scissors with which he had stabbed himself in the left breast. The wound was slight This trial had created an intense excite ment in Paris, and the verdict caused general dissatisfaction. When the two condemned submitted to exposure in the Place du Palais de Justice, the crowd which surrounded the scaffold gave vent to their indignation. "Down with the murderers! They ought to have been guillotined! They are mon sters! The law is too lenient!" Such, in fact, was the general opinion.
 * I promises. But to the astonishment of all,
 * on being conducted to his cell, he suddenly

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IT is almost a matter of regret that no where in the United States has our pro fession any institutions that can supply the benefits imparted in Great Britain by those venerable colleges of the laws, which through so many generations have kept the bar of England together, not only with untarnished honor and elevated dignity, but in delightful fellowship, and with the sense and in the power of unity. We refer, of course, to their Inns of Court. There are three principal Inns, situated not far from each other, — Gray's, Lincoln's, and the Temple. Of these, the Temple is perhaps the largest. It is situated in

the most ancient, populous, and busy part of London. Around the three sides of its site are built connectedly, and with more or less irregularity, the continuous structures which make the Temple. The outside — that is, the parts upon the street — is used for purposes of business; law booksellers, stationers, and others, who supply the con venience of the bar, being among the occu pants. It is the inner part — around and upon the square — which constitutes the resort and abode of the profession of Eng land. Turning away from the mighty stream of business life which rolls by day and night along the Strand, and entering through an